Bethanie Baynes

About Bethanie Baynes

Bethanie is a strategic technology executive with over 20 years of experience across various business units at Google and Amazon. Bethanie has earned extensive expertise in building and leading partnerships organizations and driving all phases of creating and negotiating first of their kind deals. She is skilled in establishing and maintaining C-suite relationships, leading teams with influence despite competing priorities, and earning trust with key stakeholders across organizations. Her career is marked by continued recognition and growth across key sectors including advertising, search, healthcare, retail, grocery, cloud, and entertainment. She has successfully launched new products to market as well as ushered top companies through the sunsetting of tech integrations. She has established rigor for scaled operations in customer support and business intelligence teams. During her 18 year tenure with Google, she represented the company in several forums with domestic and international government officials. In her current capacity, she is responsible for creating and driving transformational deals, programs and innovations across all assets for Amazon’s efforts in healthcare, grocery, retail and advertising.

Experience

1. Director, Corporate Business Development - Healthcare, Grocery, Cpg & Non-profit

   Amazon

   Jun 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

  Women Transforming Leadership Programme (Fall 2015)

• Northeastern University

  BA, Human Services - Magna cum Laude

  1994 — 1999

• Northwestern University

  Kellogg School of Management, Women’s Director Development Program (Fall 2017)

• Universitat d'Alacant

  Spanish Language Studies

  1996 — 1997

Skills

• Relationship Management
• Fluent in Spanish
• Digital Media
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Management
• Online Advertising
• Sales Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Analytics
• Project Management
• Team Management
• Mobile Marketing
• Sales Operations
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Development
• Digital Marketing
• Google Adwords
• Direct Sales
• Digital Strategy